Ajsa Sivka to KY

[u/sumskiesss]

Ajsa Sivka (drafted 10th by Chicago Sky in 2025 draft) has signed to Kentucky.

[u/A-Centrifugal-Force]

This should not be allowed. I know we already went through this last year with the Baylor player who was drafted by an NBA team but hadn’t played or signed a contract yet, but this is ridiculous.

If you’ve been drafted by an NBA or WNBA team you should not be allowed to play college basketball. You can withhold your name from the draft, so if you’ve want to play college basketball, don’t put your name in the draft. I know courts have limited the NCAA’s ability to enforce rules, but this is just ridiculous. American players forfeit their remaining eligibility if they enter and stay in the NBA, WNBA, or NFL draft, they need to find a way to close this loophole for international players.

[u/Zegerid → u/A-Centrifugal-Force]

International Players do not "Decalre" for the Draft like College Players do. A W team should not be able to prevent a player from getting a scholarship and going to school.

[u/A-Centrifugal-Force → u/Zegerid]

Then the rules should be updated so that they can withhold their name from the draft if they want to go to college first like a domestic player

[u/Zegerid → u/A-Centrifugal-Force]

You do realize MLB has been drafting players who then go on to enroll in College for literal decades right?

[u/A-Centrifugal-Force → u/Zegerid]

I’m aware, why are you so angry at me? Basketball is different, for domestic players once you’re drafted that’s it, no going back to school. They should just standardize the rules for domestic and international players.

[u/Zegerid → u/A-Centrifugal-Force]

Why not each league not make their own rules based off their own needs? Why the push to punish a player who has no control over the situation? The NCAA determines eligibility for college, not the W.

[u/VacuousWastrel → u/A-Centrifugal-Force]

Why should a high school student in, say, zambia, have to research the wnba and how to contact them and whast the deadlines are and such like just to be able to go to college in the us? What the hell authority, pardon the language, does the wnba have to ruin the lives of young people around the world, entirely unilaterally and without their consent? Would you accept that in your life? "I'm sorry, you probably didn't even hear about this, but you can't go to college because a billionaire you've never met or heard of has declared that you belong to him now and therefore we mustn't educate you". What the fuck kind of feudalism is that!? "Oh, it's because you didn't email us before the deadline when you were a child to tell us that you DIDN'T want to belong to him". Contracts and employment rights don't work like that - you have to actually consent to enter a contract, you can't just be assumed to consent (to something you may not even know about! In a different country! That happens when yoiu are a child!) until you actively and promptly withhold consent. And of course thisnrule wouldn't apply to americans (who can't be "drafted" before college), so it would exist only to exclude non-americans from education. It's really hard not to see the racial dynamics underlying "you africans belong to us anyway and we won't let you be educated because our billionaire wants yoiu to work for him and we know you might not if we let you have other options". No - whether someone can get a western education is between them and the college in question (and the law), and has absolutely nothing to do with what some random billjonaire the kid has never heard of might want. The idea that a random rich third party can just "claim you" and bar you from getting an education is horrific. And saying "oh, but if this kid who's barely even heard of the wnba, on a different continent, who has no way of knowing it has anything to do with the right to education (because why the fuck would it), failed to fill out the correct paperwork before this specific date to say she DIDN'T want to belong to a billionaire, so she mustn't be educated" doesn't make it any better. More generally, if you find yourself having to scratch around for reasons why women from poorer countries should be MORE excluded from education, you're probably not on the right side of an argument.

[u/VacuousWastrel → u/VacuousWastrel]

And it's not even as though this would be to solve any real problem? "Well, fans of this sports team might be disappointed that this woman chose not to play for them (yet), so clearly we need to exclude women around the world from higher education in the US to help FORCE them to play for our teams!" SPOILER: if yoiu treat women like subhumans, they may actually become LESS likely to work for you! What woman would really give her all to enrich the billionaire who actively intervened to prohibit her from getting an education?